"The price of your hat isn't the measure of your brain." -- African American Saying

"The wastebasket is a writer's best friend." -- Isaac Bashevis Singer

"We are wiser than we know." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world." -- Eleanor Roosevelt

"People don't get along because they fear each other. People fear each other because they don't know each other. They don't know each other because they have not properly communicated with each other." -- Martin Luther King Jr.

"You have brains in your head.You have feet in your shoes.You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
You're on your own.And you know what you know.And you are the guyWho'll decide where you go." -- Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go!

"Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright." -- Benjamin Franklin

"He that flings dirt at another dirties himself most." -- Thomas Fuller

"Be kind; everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." -- John Watson

"The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers." -- Ruth Benedict, anthropologist

"The sleeping fox catches no poultry." -- Benjamin Franklin

"A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in the experience." -- Elbert Hubbard

"One machine can do the work of 50 ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." -- Elbert Hubbard

"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." -- Benjamin Franklin

"Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.…" -- Samuel Butler

"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do." -- Henry Ford

"This thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down but the staying down." -- Mary Pickford

"If you're going to do good work, the work has to scare you." -- Andre Previn

"We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg." -- Emily Dickinson

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards." -- Vernon Saunders Law

"For all of us today, the battle is in our hands. The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways to lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions. We must keep going." -- Martin Luther King Jr.

"Life is like a trumpet. If you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it." -- W.C. Handy

"To err is human, to forgive is divine." -- Alexander Pope

"A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked." -- Bernard Meltzer

"Truth may be stretched but cannot be broken. It always gets above falsehood as oil does above water." -- Miguel de Cervantes

"Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope and, crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." -- Robert F. Kennedy

"My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it." -- Chuang-tzu

"Make new friends, but keep the old. One is silver, the other gold." -- Anonymous

"Not failure, but low aim, is crime." -- James Russell Lowell

"Wherever you are, it is your own friends who make your world." -- William James

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." -- William James

"The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing." -- Billie Jean King

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." -- Unknown

"Life is too short to be small." -- Benjamin Disraeli

"The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning." -- Ivy Baker Priest

"The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball -- the further I am rolled the more I gain." -- Susan B. Anthony

"The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship." -- William Blake

"[I]t is a dangerous thing to ask why someone else has been given more. It is humbling -- and indeed healthy -- to ask why you have been given so much." -- Condoleezza Rice

"You have to be true to yourself, but you have to be true to your best self, not to the self that secretly thinks you are better than other people." -- Stephen Gaskin

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison." -- Victor Hugo

"Even monkeys fall out of trees." -- Japanese proverb

"To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks." -- A. A. Milne

"Things turn out the best for people who make the best of the way things turn out." -- John Wooden

"Children act in the village as they have learned at home." -- Swedish proverb

"The more he cast away, the more he had." -- John Bunyan

"Eyes of youth have sharp sight but commonly not so deep as those of elder age." -- Elizabeth I

"Genius without education is like silver in the mine." -- Benjamin Franklin

"If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear." -- Mark Twain

"The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls and looking like hard work." -- Thomas Edison

"Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write." -- William Faulkner

"Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing." -- Robert Benchley

"Talent is like electricity -- we do not understand electricity. We use it." -- Maya Angelou

"If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap, than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods,
the world will make a beaten path to his door." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together." -- Josh Billings

"He who will not economize will have to agonize." -- Confucius

"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble." -- Bob Hope

"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up." -- Mark Twain

"A long dispute means both parties are wrong." -- Voltaire

"Behind every able man, there are always other able men." -- Chinese proverb

"Talk does not cook rice." -- Chinese proverb

"The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones." -- W. Somerset Maugham

"When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck before you crush him." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed." -- Josh Billings

"Have more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest. -- William Shakespeare

"A man of words and not of deeds / Is like a garden full of weeds." -- Mother Goose

"The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right." -- Lord Hailsham

"Every man is the architect of his own fortune." -- Sallust

"Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some to be chewed and digested." -- Francis Bacon

"When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them." -- Confucius

"Speak when you are angry, and you will make the best speech that you will ever regret." -- Ambrose Bierce

"So you see!There's no endTo the things you might know,Depending how far beyond Zebra you go." -- Dr. Seuss, On Beyond Zebra

"Every artist was first an amateur." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." -- Lao-Tze

"If you don't know where you want to go, any road will take you there." -- African American proverb

"Oh, what a tangled web we weave / When first we practice to deceive!" -- Sir Walter Scott

"Mercy to the criminal may be cruelty to the people." -- Arab proverb

"My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition." -- Indira Gandhi

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." -- Eleanor Roosevelt

"What goes around comes around." -- African American saying

"What its children become, that will the community become." -- Suzanne La Follette

"Consider the postage stamp: Its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there." -- Josh Billings

"What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood." -- Leonardo da Vinci

"Time heals all wounds." -- Geoffrey Chaucer

"Two heads are better than one." -- John Heywood

"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. When I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." -- Mark Twain

"The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in." (Note: For students to understand this one, teachers might need to explain to students a little about the history of town commons, common lands set aside for the common use and enjoyment of all.) -- Thomas Jefferson